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Anybody get out this weekend or today? Looking to climb tomorrow and have no clue what would be good after all the rain, aside some of the old fat fall backs like standard. Or, am I looking at a day of dry tooling?

Standard is still in but has open water in center line... best line IMO is up right side of the cave at 3+... upper tier took a hit but right column is still attached and strong... middle column is sketch and open/detached at top, easy exit out left is fine...

Dracula is FAT...

Descent trail is heinous, rappelling from partway down gully was our choice today...

I was at the Barking Dog Crag on Sunday and at Frankenstein today - Monday. It is really surprising just how much ice there is still left in all the usual places. Frankenstein wasn't crowded, but thee were a fair number of folks there. While the Amphitheater is in poor shape, almost everything else is in excellent conditions. I climbed Standard Route and it is fat. We saw several parties on Dracula, a party on Waterfall, people on Walk In The Forest and a large group at the Trestle area.

The upcoming cold snap, while brutal, will almost assuredly kick things up a notch or perhaps two in a short period of time. With all the water in the system we may see some more interesting things form in unusual places. Heck, word has it that even Mean Mistreater was done on Friday!

Everything with significant sun is toast. bunch of stuff still good to great. Smear, pegasus pillars and rock finish, standard and both sides of dracula still good to great. Rigt side of dracula seemed steeper than what I have experienced in the past. left side is stepped out but very interesting moves.

Climbed LNMW, Upper Hitchcock and The Cleft on Tuesday. Everything was big and fat - with variable conditions. Hero ice, snow layered, milky and punky from the sun - a little bit of everything.

There were parties on Upper East Face Slabs Left (very sun baked they said) and Upper East Face Slabs left (very sun baked from standing at the base). The worse part of the day was all the post holing getting to LHMW (I would suggest lower Hitchcock to the traverse - which I didn't do) and getting up the the Mt Willard trail to come down. Be careful of tree wells - I sunk almost into mid chest and had only stepped a foot or so off the "beaten path."

At the parking lot at the end of the day it was 50 degrees! The cold beer and warm sun were great!